Atlas
Mount Wutai
Mount Wutai, the bodhimanda of Manjusri — where Han, Tibetan, and Mongolian Buddhism converge, a vast ancient architectural complex built by successive dynasties through imperial patronage.
Prefecture: Xinzhou
Province: ShanxiA tall white stupa rises from woods in a valley, ringed by grey-tiled roofs and red walls of temple buildings, with layered green hills beyond and a pine branch in the corner.
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- Xiantong Temple Bronze Hall in Mount Wutai
Regarded as the first temple founded on Mount Wutai, Xiantong Temple has a Ming gilt-bronze hall cast from about fifty tonnes of copper and a beamless brick-vaulted hall.
- Pusading Imperial Tibetan Buddhist Temple in Wutai
Kangxi and Qianlong lodged at this temple on pilgrimages to Wutai, which has yellow glazed tiles, a nine-dragon stone carving and leads the mountain's Tibetan Buddhist temples.
- Shuxiang Temple Giant Manjushri Hall in Wutai
A nearly ten-metre Ming statue of Manjushri riding a green lion dominates the hall, surrounded by vivid hanging sculptures of five hundred arhats crossing the sea.
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- Tayuan Temple Great White Pagoda in Mount Wutai
The fifty-metre Nepalese-style Great White Pagoda, emblem of Mount Wutai, is said to enshrine relics of Shakyamuni and a lock of Manjushri's hair.
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- Founding Tradition of Dafu Lingjiu Templec. 68 CE
Wutai's Dafu Lingjiu Temple, predecessor of Xiantong Temple, is traditionally traced to the Eastern Han Yongping era; legendary details are not treated as established fact.
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- Pusading Rebuilt in the Kangxi EraKangxi era (1661-1722)
During the Kangxi era, Pusading at Mount Wutai was rebuilt in imperial style with yellow glazed tiles and became an imperial Qing temple.
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- Landscapes Join the World Heritage List
Huangshan was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1990, and by 2017 Mount Wutai, Longhushan, Xinjiang Tianshan, Guilin, Shennongjia, Hoh Xil and other Chinese mountain and landscape sites had followed.
- Mount Wutai Inscribed as World Heritage2009 CE
In 2009, Mount Wutai was inscribed for its Buddhist monasteries, pilgrimage tradition, and long interaction between sacred architecture and mountain landscape.
